KEYSER — The Potomac State College softball team seeks another Region 20 title this spring. Following a 20-7 regular season campaign in 2021, the Lady Catamounts swept their way through the Region 20 Division II Softball Tournament, capturing the program’s fifth Region 20 Championship ...
MORGANTOWN — Year 10 of Randy Mazey baseball at West Virginia University is well underway. So, what exactly is Mazey Ball? It’s a lot of things. It’s putting pressure on other teams by maximizing opportunities running the bases and turning sure doubles into uncertain triples. ...
MILL CREEK — With five seniors back to lead the way, Tygarts Valley looks to make a deep run into the baseball postseason in 2022. The Bulldogs went 12-16 in 2021, falling to Notre Dame in sectional play. Seniors Garrett Gibson, Matthew Pratt, Brandon Mahoney, Riley Tackett and Noah ...
HAMBLETON — A strong nucleus is back for the Tucker County High School baseball team this spring. The Mountain Lions lost to Pendleton County in sectional action last season. They had defeated East Hardy in the opening game of postseason play before dropping a road verdict at ...
HAMBLETON — The Tucker County softball team returns plenty of offensive power this spring. Six players that batted over .400 are back for the Lady Mountain Lions and first-year coach Jonathan Hicks. Hicks replaced A.J. Rapp, who is now the school’s athletic director. Kristen Hicks ...
MILL CREEK — After playing just a handful of games the past two seasons, Tygarts Valley softball coach Wendy Walden is excited with the prospect that her squad will get to play a full schedule this spring. Because of COVID-19 the Lady Bulldogs didn’t play a game in 2020. A year later ...
DUNMORE — The Pocahontas County softball team lost three seniors from last year’s squad. They included Sienna Bircher, Emma Dean and Jennalee Meck. Bircher was one of the squad’s top pitchers. Players expected to return this spring include senior Summer Hall, juniors Talisa ...
PHILIPPI — Despite losing a talented senior class that came within a series victory of advancing to the Class AA state tournament last season, plenty of talent returns for Philip Barbour this spring. The Colts went 19-11 in 2021 under coach Jonathan Carpenter, falling to Herbert Hoover in ...
PHILIPPI — Philip Barbour has emerged over the past couple of seasons as one one of the top softball programs in the Big 10 Conference under coach Rob Simon. Now Simon and the Lady Colts look to make noise at the state level once postseason arrives. “This (year) has the making of a ...
ELKINS — First-year Elkins coach Michaela Lewis-Lambert knows a thing or two about pitching. Lewis-Lambert was a standout performer for the Lady Tigers during her prep career, earning second-team all-state honors, first-team all-Big 10 Conference laurels and helping lead EHS to its ...
TENNERTON — A pair of Class AAA all-state performers return to lead the Buckhannon-Upshur softball team this spring. Senior Shelby McDaniels was a first-team selection in 2021 after batting .583 with 14 doubles and four homers last year. She also led the team in RBIs with 27 and ...
ELKINS — Tim Miller begins his second season at the Davis & Elkins College head baseball coach. The Senators went 7-23 last season and were picked to finish fifth in South Division of the Mountain East Conference in the preseason poll. Junior Cole Hitch, senior Chase DeGrood, ...
ELKINS — The Davis & Elkins College softball team is in their second season under the direction of head coach Elle Fracker. The Lady Senators went 11-21 in 2021. Fracker and assistant coach Kellsi Peterson hit the recruiting trail hard during the offseason, adding nine freshmen ...
DUNMORE — Pocahontas County returns a veteran squad to the diamond this spring. The Warriors lost just one senior starter from last year’s squad in first baseman Jacob Barkley. Top returners include sophomore Wyatt Hendrick, senior David Gibb, senior catcher Ben Dunz, outfielder Nacota ...
ELKINS — New Elkins High School baseball coach Todd Biller hopes to lead the school’s baseball program to a resurgence after a dismal 1-17 campaign last season. Biller, who was the starting catcher at Elkins from 1995 to 1997, was head coach at Elkins Middle School last season and has ...
TENNERTON — Buckhannon-Upshur returns a strong nucleus on the diamond this spring, including all-state performer Zach Calef-Boring. The Bucs must replace four seniors, including .300-plus hitters Elijah Arbogast, Jay Burnside and Zach White, but plenty of talent is back. Calef-Boring, who ...
KEYSER — Doug Little is in his 25th season as the Potomac State College baseball coach. “Our guys give us everything they have for 10 months a year,” said Little, who was inducted into the NJCAA Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 2016. “College baseball is truly a grind, but the guys ...
